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This work analyzes ethical concerns found in users' app store reviews. We performed this study because ethical concerns in mobile applications (apps) are widespread, pose severe threats to end users and society, and lack systematic analysis…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Lauren Olson , Neelam Tjikhoeri , Emitzá Guzmán

Software development is a collaborative process that involves various interactions among individuals and teams. TODO comments in source code play a critical role in managing and coordinating diverse tasks during this process. However, this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Haoye Wang , Zhipeng Gao , Tingting Bi , John Grundy , Xinyu Wang , Minghui Wu , Xiaohu Yang

Failure to consider the characteristics, limitations, and abilities of diverse end-users during mobile apps development may lead to problems for end-users such as accessibility and usability issues. We refer to this class of problems as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Hourieh Khalajzadeh , Mojtaba Shahin , Humphrey O. Obie , Pragya Agrawal , John Grundy

When programmers look for how to achieve certain programming tasks, Stack Overflow is a popular destination in search engine results. Over the years, Stack Overflow has accumulated an impressive knowledge base of snippets of code that are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-05-04 Di Yang , Pedro Martins , Vaibhav Saini , Cristina Lopes

Value alignment is central to the development of safe and socially compatible artificial intelligence. However, how Large Language Models (LLMs) represent and enact human values in real-world decision contexts remains under-explored. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Jen-tse Huang , Jiantong Qin , Xueli Qiu , Sharon Levy , Michelle R. Kaufman , Mark Dredze

Stack Overflow is one of the most popular technical Q&A sites used by software developers. Seeking help from Stack Overflow has become an essential part of software developers' daily work for solving programming-related questions. Although…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Zhipeng Gao , Xin Xia , David Lo , John Grundy , Yuan-Fang Li

The proliferation of mobile applications (apps) has made it crucial to ensure their accessibility for users with disabilities. However, there is a lack of research on the real-world challenges developers face in implementing mobile…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Amila Indika , Christopher Lee , Haochen Wang , Justin Lisoway , Anthony Peruma , Rick Kazman

An important goal for programmers is to minimize cost of identifying and correcting defects in source code. Code review is commonly used for identifying programming defects. However, manual code review has some shortcomings: a) it is time…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-13 Balwinder Sodhi , Shipra Sharma

LLM-generated interfaces are increasingly used in high-consequence workflows (e.g., healthcare communication), where how information is presented can impact downstream actions. These interfaces and their content support human interaction…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Blessing Jerry , Lourdes Moreno , Paloma Martínez

Comments play an important role in updating Stack Overflow (SO) posts. They are used to point out a problem (e.g., obsolete answer and buggy code) in a SO answer or ask for more details about a proposed answer. We refer to this type of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Mohammad Sadegh Sheikhaei , Yuan Tian , Shaowei Wang

As Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve remarkable breakthroughs, aligning their values with humans has become imperative for their responsible development and customized applications. However, there still lack evaluations of LLMs values…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jing Yao , Xiaoyuan Yi , Shitong Duan , Jindong Wang , Yuzhuo Bai , Muhua Huang , Peng Zhang , Tun Lu , Zhicheng Dou , Maosong Sun , Xing Xie

We present two comprehensive benchmarks to evaluate the performance of language models in coding assistance tasks, covering code writing, debugging, code review, and conceptual understanding. Our main contribution includes two curated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Nidhish Shah , Zulkuf Genc , Dogu Araci

The identification of code smells is largely recognized as a subjective task. Consequently, the automated detection tools available are insufficient to deal with the whole subjectivity involved in the task, requiring human validation.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Luiz Felipi Junionello , Rafael de Mello

Recent studies have shown that developers have difficulties in using cryptographic APIs, which often led to security flaws. We are interested to tackle this matter by looking into what types of problems exist in various crypto libraries. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Mohammadreza Hazhirpasand , Oscar Nierstrasz , Mohammad Ghafari

Code review is a critical software engineering practice where developers review code changes before integration to ensure code quality, detect defects, and improve maintainability. In recent years, AI agents that can understand code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Suzhen Zhong , Shayan Noei , Ying Zou , Bram Adams

In recent years, people have increasingly used AI to help them with their problems by asking questions on different topics. One of these topics can be software-related and programming questions. In this work, we focus on the questions which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Motahhare Mirzaei , Mohammad Javad Pirhadi , Sauleh Eetemadi

Large Question-and-Answer (Q&A) platforms support diverse knowledge curation on the Web. While researchers have studied user behavior on the platforms in a variety of contexts, there is relatively little insight into important by-products…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Xiang Fu , Shangdi Yu , Austin R. Benson

Efficient access to high-quality information is vital for online platforms. To promote more useful information, users not only create new content but also evaluate existing content, often through helpfulness voting. Although aggregated…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Chang Liu , Yixin Wang , Moontae Lee

Generalized reciprocity -- the tendency to help others after receiving help oneself -- is widely theorized as a mechanism sustaining cooperation on online knowledge-sharing platforms. Yet robust empirical evidence from field settings…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Lenard Strahringer , Sven Eric Prüß , Kai Riemer

Stack Overflow has become an essential technical resource for developers. However, given the vast amount of knowledge available on Stack Overflow, finding the right information that is relevant for a given task is still challenging,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Akalanka Galappaththi , Sarah Nadi , Christoph Treude